in anyone's interest to murder them once they got into the public spotlight anyone with an iota of sense in government would have known that to kill them would just we're just a story i think it's simply i think both were under enormous pressure from their roles as whistle blows and and found it difficult to cope with that pressure short haul was evidence could have been crucial to proving that the news of the world editors supported a culture of listening to private voice mails for stories former editor andy colson who later became a media director to the current prime minister has always denied the allegations the man was destroyed professionally by abuse international. journalistic london is a very small amount was. drinking too much taking drugs he was depressed to be moralized police are saying hall's death doesn't appear suspicious and they're looking at suicide dr kelly's death was also recorded as suicide although many including leading doctors and m.p.'s have never accepted that their suspicions

of hardly been quelled by the fact the post-mortem report and other evidence has been classified for seventy years so ten arrests six resignations two convictions and one death that the toll of the phone hacking scandal so far the death of a key whistleblower in this scandal has raised questions but so far only amongst the twitter ossie it's being reported as a horrible and unfortunate coincidence but it's doubtful that if this had happened elsewhere say in russia or in india the british media would be so quick to accept it as a coincidence particularly looked at in the light of the death of david kelly you're at it r.t. . still to come on the program finding the man behind the drones. used

up our lives soldiers who fought for israel in the war against lebanon or find themselves stuck in a country that's forgotten their existence. george's latest spy saga has taken yet another twist to be seen now says three photojournalists locked up on charges of espionage on the half of russia have confessed their guilt but artie's reports there are concerns that the suspects were coerced into admitting crimes they didn't commit. and then there were none the last georgian photographer to deny allegations of spying has apparently changed his story he now admits the charges video testimony of joerg abdullah this confession of spying for russia was released by prosecutors to the media but most journalists are skeptical about this latest development or our. old this is very strange and there is it in the middle

of the night and that this entire case has been marked as top secret all of this raises questions and are not getting any answers and this confession is a serious face to ease or because we have made doubts about this whole deal. and you will get the odds and maintained his innocence ever since he along with three other photojournalists was arrested at the beginning of this month all for including president mikhail saakashvili his personal photographer were accused of passing on top secret information to russia's military intelligence or for initially insisted they were innocent then one by one the photographers started changing their testimonies eventually three of them incriminated themselves in a spin off but up the law they insisted he was not guilty and even went on a hunger strike to provoke this point in fact his lawyer says the photographer seems to have changed his mind over the space of just ten minutes and that's led to questions over the circumstances under which the photographer seems to have changed

his story managing editor of all your newspaper dhimmitude e-cards it believes these admissions of guilt show the case has been fabricated. we live in a totalitarian state today all power is concentrated in the hands of president saakashvili and if someone goes against him then all of us will end up like this if the interior ministry has any other proof of their guilt he wouldn't have to force these confessions out of him basically this is a message for all of us journalists including me and. members of the media heard the message loud and clear and stage a protest outside the jail where three photographers are being held and preliminary detention human rights activists meanwhile believe protests will hardly affect the system of power in the country. it's very likely that of dillard's or will be forced to ask for my removal from the case investigators want everyone who can

interfere out of the picture so they can lead the way they want to they want the case of the photographers to end without any public discussion and that's possible if all the rest to plead guilty. and well the case seems outrageous to journalists and many ordinary people it's just the latest in a seemingly endless string of spies scandals to hit georgia. r.t. . well you can find more background on how the georgian spy scandal unfolded on our website that's dot com. so that lined out how ukrainian that showed their support for jordan photographers. also online the cat lovers could soon be seen worshipping on the list as moscow gets its own temple dedicated to the feed on each. mission in free cretaceous free storage free. range and free.

free. free. free brought here to video for your media project free media don carty dot com. u.k. based human rights group together with pakistani activists seeking an arrest warrant for former cia legal director julie responsible for drone strikes which killed hundreds of civilians are tired john rizzo admitted in an interview that he had been approving such attacks in pakistan since two thousand and four despite the fact the u.s. isn't with the country. on the strikes to target al qaida militants but the total civilian toll is estimated up to two thousand five hundred people sent. to study in the lawyers have already filed a complaint against prison using him of conspiring to kill innocents an american antiwar activist fred ranchman believes the us is any harm in its own interests in

the region. the basic justification for this program is that it's protecting america it's necessary for us national security in fact by all the figures that we've seen drone strikes every fury of the people pakistan we've quadrupled read pakistani taliban. and numbers and violent attacks they've moved them east into the poor dear abby heartland to the point where they now pose a major threat to the pakistani government only knew of the pakistani military so much that there's now talk about mantell u.s. military coup on the front page of the new york times and most importantly it poured into the area and better solution real than the wiki leaks cables. were so the u.s. is so hated now in pakistan the government is afraid to cooperate with iran safeguarding its nuclear materials which of the world's fastest growing and by zero experts will

tell you the least secure so the result of this drone strike campaign is variously creasing the danger in the united states of a conventional and or nuclear terrorist. the new statistics reveal the alarming number of americans dying every year because of heart disease where you can see all special reports that traces the connection between food and serious health problems at the nine thirty g.m.t. here in the team. forty two thousand americans die each year are accidents only a thousand. seven hundred thousand people. and thirty two thousand will kill themselves cancer in all its forms kills five hundred sixty thousand of us here part disease is even more devastating it kills over eight hundred seventy thousand americans every year.

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eleven years after the israeli lebanon war ended israel swift retreat still struggling with the consequences thousands of members of the so-called south lebanese army backed forces feel their sacrifices gone unrecognized. one former soldier who supported the country he fought for. there's only one thing for wise national dreams about and that is to return home but home is southern lebanon and he's stuck here on the other side of the border in northern israel. that's my home five kilometers away eleven years ago for was was one of several thousand christian neighbor nice to flee with the israeli army as it left lebanon for eighteen years the israelis had been fighting the palestine liberation organization and hizbollah on lebanese soil helped by the south lebanon army a militia of christians shias andrews who controlled the south of the country this

old lebanese army has been fired for israel as the world that is there than fired for self. there was admitting of engrosses between them and us but growing domestic pressure in israel over the high losses suffered by the army finally convince the government to withdraw and it did so quickly. our epstein was a soldier at the time and says the lebanese soldiers who helped israel were left behind almost like sitting ducks. if we're soldiers knew little about us leaving they for sure knew even less there was some sort of selection the commanders were brought here but i'm sure if you were a driver not much was done for you. some seven thousand south lebanon army soldiers crossed into israel those who were left behind were tried jailed and sometimes killed as traitors for was an ashram was one of those who got out alive he'd been working with israeli intelligence hoping to recruit lebanese spies i did not want to really hear i want to die fighting with the israeli intelligence almost. forced

me to call on i was told you know too much but the way they treat me now is a shame they forced me to run away and now they spit on my face six months ago i'm not a lawyer found for was living in a tent on the street he was hardly surviving on the few hundred dollars a month israeli government gave him i feel ashamed. in my country dripping not only the case of four was not jim but two thousand people that remain in state in israel why that country and the state of israel are treating them like. it's a charge the government is aware of although it says it's doing its best to help them by giving cash education and in some cases although not in followers as a home. for them already eleven years. ago the thing that we don't have to we must do with it's very unique. it's

a very unique nobody that did it do that i found the cure. you name it never nobody of them. but still that treatment was not enough to stop two thirds of those who came to israel from immigrating elsewhere. i feel betrayed the beast sitting in the special intelligence forces have not given me any help since i've been here this is the israeli lebanese border and this fence used to be known as the good friends but in the last eleven years since the israelis withdrew from lebanon the situation has deteriorated and this is because the good feints has since become close friends and through its bars israel's forgotten friends seem condemned if a peek at the family they're more than likely never see again. on the israel lebanon border. where the american space shuttle program you to officially ends with the return of atlantis from its last mission thursday there are some that say

the country's dream of space exploration is now over it's a position rejected by williams a distinguished astronomer and the man behind the hubble space telescope he says the golden era of space research is in its prime and you can see a full interview with him around fifteen minutes time. we're going through difficult periods now in the past few years but when i talk about the golden age of astronomy i talk about the the space missions that we've had in the past fifteen years and the large ground based observatories and the new technological developments that have been able to us to do things like adaptive optics supercomputers that have really advanced our understanding of astronomy if you look at the fundamental discoveries that have been made in astronomy about paul's qualls ours. the existence of planets around other stars in the past fifteen years there's been an explosion of knowledge about things and then largely is due to important

technological developments so they've all come together to. was this a large number of discoveries that i would say really makes it appropriate to call this age a golden era of astronomy. when it comes to starting a family at a time when couples in russia will stop at nothing and if a country six million infertile couple says surrogacy is there any chance of having a child but despite the practice being legal in russia the end result isn't always a case of happy families. these first photos of danton made him an orphan seen he was ill his genetic parents refused even to hold him the boy has a rare and incurable genetic disease but. they simply threw him out like an unwanted kitten and picked a healthy one. while his healthy twin brother enjoys family life and has no one but

hospital staff helping him to survive the boy sorry that mother also disappeared soon after the delivery dates. but also responsibility they clear all the children . you for. such a child in an orphanage they should pay for that. they should bear. all of their income. it's a pity of the small. implemented in our country little anton story is just one of the shocking examples of shortcomings in the russian family code that seeks to regulate sorry to see in the country for got the material but where in our modern world the idea of surrogacy is sometimes distorted if you didn't use to avoid the hardships of pregnancy and to preserve the beauty of a body this is why you spoilt i'm rich so i can buy a surrogate and then get

a nanny to bring the child up that's emasculating the idea of humanness and turn surrogacy into a business renting out a womb costs from twenty to thirty thousand dollars however often either those who paid nor the sarah get want to admit their involvement in the process the attitude to surrogacy in russia is ambiguous so many women simply don't want anyone to know their baby is carried by another one out of many it's easier to resort to a small but not such a small why. how about one scene in public with this there really is no going back to the sides become entangled in a legal and moral not. blackmail homes intended parents while surrogate mothers greatest fear is not getting paid most of them see sarah see as the only solution to their financial misery if you had no other choice we lived at my mom's place nine people in four to six square metres. zinaida mother of two hope giving birth

or money would allow her buy an apartment for her large family however hard way through the pregnancy that attic parents demanded she a board they had shopped around and their backup was bearing twins. the biological father sprawled out in front of men unarmed chair and almost knocked when he was saying don't you understand we need neither you nor the baby. you know either still hoped they'd accept the baby but instead ended up with no feet and an addition to her family problems all a worm you do. that comes from more we're all just. too little and don't these legal details are called comfort the question is whether he will ever want to know who his real parents are and why they treated him as a commodity gary pushed artie mask. now why that's a look at

a couple of other stories from around the world the rebels have suffered severe losses from trying to seize the strategic eastern libyan town of bread that they were shelled by government forces in trucks disguised the files insurgents advance or rather it is possible complicated by the un binds reportedly planted by gadhafi forces doctors or from nearby hospitals set least thirty four rebels died in recent fighting. dozens of people have protested in front of the japanese embassy in south korea against tokyo's decision to boycott. the airlines test for disputed territory. there through its new flagship airbus a three screen in africa. but japan claims as its territory the coach is hoping to speak to a solid team that's been anywhere else in the region is located in the east sea equal distance from japan and south korea. arenas here now with all the

business. following a welcome to business here on r t no we start with russia which has removed the capital gains tax for foreigners trading on the country's stock exchanges the move is months attract further investment and for the promote moscow as an international financial center of on that's going to see on the run the sun's capital says investors will welcome the change. it's quite common that international investors international exchanges don't pay capital talks people gain talks and now russia as you know striving to become a financial center it's trying to bring its regulation in line but what's whatever is the properties from the. international changes so it's. it's moving towards that

direction to become an international financial center and cancelled the you people giving talks for international investors on the mystic exchanges are supposed to it's a pretty big impact the shadow of that as now extends from washington to tokyo and most places in between the markets are not panicking but the steady drip of bad news is taking its toll and politicians are playing a part as leaders quarrel of a greece and the u.s. lawmakers are in stalemate over the debt ceiling well the c.e.o. of index futures group jag jones says this is at its volatility and baffling the markets. well you know obviously it's confused that's one of the reasons the market has gone basically sideways here now for the past few months every time it feels as if the market's going to go up and break out of this little malays of course we start to see the obstacles in the in the black clouds hanging over the market and then whenever we get cheap incidentally what we see happen is that valuation starts

to play a role because we find the market now cheaper than we've seen it in a while just on a on a price to earnings ratio basis and you also have to throw in the fact that you have got a lot of other problems for instance over regulation obamacare and various other things dodd frank these are things domestically that the market here has to start to digest all of which are playing obstacles are having a very difficult time with pricing the market. now let's take a look at the markets crude is on the rise we can see that light sweet. ninety eight dollars there and brant is adding just seventy cents and the price increase comes after a strong u.s. housing data and debt cutting plan from washington. they are a step has a plan and strong gains on wall street had a positive effect on the asian markets as well the gains were held by earnings reports from apple and i.b.m. which boosted tech firms. and here in moscow thing r.t.s.

has opened in the black it's now one percent point fifteen zero and then my sex is just outside trading. now looking ahead to the day stray than they have bogged down the from gas from bank expects the sideways movement to continue in the absence of any bad. if you do will be the sort of like three in the sidelines and the no no manager in the us and should happen therefore in the market will be that we will who put it to the stalls call the done the previous day and you know make maybe some corrections but overall especially when you're the saturdays and middle of the summer and the market doesn't look we do tend to be very active anyway so i would think that you know if if no major bad news will cap on top of the grease for example recently but even if thinking now it's already done deal then the market should be should be more flat even maybe even a little higher well that's all the business news for now but you can join us next

hour for more and you can always check out the website for more stories there are two dot com slash business the headlines are next with. wealthy british style. markets finance scandals find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to name two causes a report on our. culture is that so much time in which of course he's right on it and so here it is the debt deadline is the deadline for the u.s. to increase its debt ceiling looms what appeared to be more mom politics and upcoming elections than fixing a crippling. of a failed state this is not

a provocation but warned. a force it should step before you short a supreme retreat they have no idea about the hardships the we face. one it is this is a. two nuisance for any army the life of the usaf is the most precious thing in the world. is of self-sacrifice and heroism of those who understand it fully but you have to live a. real life stories from world war two. be true nine hundred forty five dot dot com. in india. the move to join. the gateway to the grand imperial. told us to.

sit down to go and. read the sun the colonel was heard to retreat. welcome back to r.t. our main headlines for you this hour timely death is the man capable of doing greatest blow winds up dead joining the increased scrutiny from the public all too familiar with. georgian voices of support for three photojournalists accused of espionage are growing louder as critics question the validity of the suspects in recent confessions. and six million in russian couples may see surrogacy as their only chance of having a baby paula just lation means it's the children who suffer in the end. now with

the u.s. shuttle program almost over the tough economic situation straining space research some say the american dream of reaching for the stars is over but one man still believes that where there's a will there's a way but williams one of those behind the launch of the hubble space telescope thinks humankind will still make its way into space special interview is up next. mr williams thank you very much for being with us. today it's an honor sir my pleasure the beauty of hubble images security basically its funding and its place in science do you think that beautiful ideas do have a better chance of being successful by than that that is that aren't that pretty. no i would say well it's always nice to look at beauty. but in

fact. as far as a scientific value of hubble is concerned or trying to understand the universe and beauty is one of those things maybe you've heard the expression and the beauty is in the mind of the beholder and so in fact what i see beauty and sometimes is a picture that other people might not consider beautiful but that reveals the answer to some important question like how stars form how the galaxy form and so to a scientist the beauty is a totally different thing the fact though that hubble produces beautiful images that children like to see is very important for the funding of horrible and of course that's important for we scientists that's exactly what i meant so and so in that sense yes it is important in fact i can tell you. in the united states maybe in many countries schoolchild.